丁度·巴拉斯精选短篇集之畸情

　　科技业亿万富翁迈尔斯·布朗（爱德华·诺顿 饰）邀了几位感情深厚的挚友到他的希腊私人小岛渡假，不料却有人命丧于此！这座世外桃源原来并不如想像中美好。命案既出，大侦探布兰科（丹尼尔·克雷格饰）此时不出马更待何时？且看他如何解开重重谜团！

本片以乡村考古为背景，讲述少女露西与母亲卡罗琳重返家族故地时，意外揭开一段被岁月掩埋的亲情谜团。露西在两只神秘灵雀的指引下，与好友化身“小侦探”，通过老宅残片、褪色信件与家族旧物，逐步拼凑出曾祖母时代因战乱而断裂的情感纽带。这部别致的定格动画采用手工剪纸方式制作，创作团队用2000个纸偶和826个布景拍摄，堪称完成了一项不可能的工作。片中既有细腻舒缓的情绪铺陈，也不乏快速剪辑的惊险片段。导演安东尼·兰席奥以一段层层递进的冒险旅程为载体，娓娓道来几代人之间的情感牵绊，描绘出一部充满诗意、幽默和温情的动画佳作。

　　黑心鬼（午马 饰）原是百年前的善长人翁，好事做尽，却令田地善恶不平衡，故被罚在阳间害九名贪心之人后方可投胎；陈康泰（陈友 饰）误放出尿壶中的黑心鬼，被赠予三个愿望，试验其是否贪心之人。康泰之弟星辰（莫少聪 饰）替兄顶罪而被解雇，寄居兄长家中，被恶嫂梅赛花（梅艳芳 饰）逼做男佣，因而邂逅女鬼梅兰花（梅艳芳 饰），另一方面，黑心鬼限期将至，决定完成康泰最后愿望后便取其性命，康泰能否度过此劫……

　　一次偶然的事件让同为死对头的极品同桌男女互换了身体与性别，二人为了恢复正常做出了疯狂举动，经历了种种令人啼笑皆非的荒唐事情。无果之后，二人将计就计，利用对方的身体互相追求自己喜欢的人，历经艰辛终于讨得心上人欢喜。大功告成之时，不料灾难悄然降临，二人即将面临时间的清理，急速衰老，祸不单行，王元鹅的母亲因为自己的任性而失去生命，大喜大悲之下，二人悟出了青春的含义还有亲情的可贵，无奈时日不多，临死之前，二人一一完成自己的遗愿，开演唱会、做学霸、挑战黑社会，可是等到最后一天死神到来之时，王元鹅才发现，一切原来是......

　　Camiel Borgman突然出现在某个富有的郊区，敲响了一户小康之家的大门。他是谁？他代表梦想、魔鬼、讽喻，还是代表了我们的恐惧？

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.